At
the January 2013 meeting the FMSNY Executive Board voted to suspend our
annual Eisteddfod festival for 2013 and reintroduce the Fall Weekend,
which was one of the club’s yearly highlights before being combined
with Eisteddfod in 2009. The Fall Weekend will, as always, feature the
kind of program and performers that have long demonstrated the value of
Pinewoods membership. Meanwhile, the Board’s Eisteddfod Committee
will be working diligently to reimagine the festival so that when we
bring it back in 2014 it will be attractive to a wider audience. Those
who have attended Eisteddfod know what a great contribution it has made
to the folk music community in terms of education, entertainment and
fellowship. Our goal is to find a way to spread that message and
draw an audience large enough to make the festival self-sustaining into
the indefinite future.

The information below is from November 2012 -- just to give you an idea of what the festival is like.

Eisteddfod-NY is proud to host traditional music and
song from Brittany, England, Hawaii, Ireland, Macedonia, Scotland,
Serbia, and of course America — Appalachia, New York State, and more —
along with contemporary songs, sea shanties, Gospel and Sacred Harp,
and blues. As always, there will be plenty of opportunities for
everyone to play and/or sing in the participatory workshops and
informal jams. Come listen, come play and sing, come learn.

2012 Ticket Prices

tickets are available either with
accommodations (blue section) or without (purple
section).

Note: through several generous
donations, we are offering a very reduced group "friends" rate for
group reservations by those age 21 through 35. These "friends" rates
are for the entire festival including all all programs, lodging, hotel
facilities, and meals Friday dinner through Sunday Lunch. See the yellow section below.

Special
Group "friends" weekend rate for groups of 3 or more
age 21-35, registering as a group: in triple rooms @ $150 per
person; in double rooms @ $180 per person (online
orders:
http://enyfriends.eventbrite.com)

Here's how we arrange the Eisteddfod program: we contact
performers, ask them so make suggestions, then try to work out who will
do what and with whom.

Our overall endeavor is to have some workshops that are
participatory (for example, songs with choruses, old-time jamming; some
workshops that cover a particular area or type of music (blues, Sacred
Harp, Scotland, etc.); and some that are "mini-concerts' so people can
get a taste of what individual performers do. There is also a campers'
concert, for which anyone can sign up to perform.

In the past, we've had some great synergy between performers —
people who had never met before but found community in their music.

We hope that everyone who comes will take the chance to play,
sing, and learn.

Every Eisteddfod-NY attendee will receive a copy of our
Souvenir Program Book, which contains details of the performers,
schedule, and more. The deadline for inclusion is 10 days before the
festival. Full payment must accompany copy. Send check made out to
FMSNY to Heather Wood, 444 West 54th Street #7, New York NY 10019. For
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